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jadesfire1. So much for going home and getting lots done. In the middle of my committee meeting yesterday, I looked across the room and realised I couldn't see the faces of the people opposite me. Being me, the thought of making ANY kind of fuss is paralysing, so I sat through the next hour watching my migraine symptoms drift across my vision, and hoping no one asked me to read anything.
On the migraine spectrum, mine are pretty mild in general. I get a blind spot, the cracked glass effect, and a mild headache, all normally passing within a few hours. Also, for the previous 2 days, I'm usually in a total brain fog, although I didn't have that this time. What was new was, when I got back to my desk, I discovered that I couldn't read my email. Not as in "I couldn't look at the screen" or "my vision is still screwed up" but my brain refused to make connections between words. I could see them. I could understand the individual words, but to all intents and purposes, I couldn't read. It passed after about half an hour, and although the overnight headache was massive, and I've got some remnants of double vision today, honestly, the reading thing was terrifying. As my colleague said, brains are weird.
2. That means that everything that should have happened after the meeting yesterday now needs to happen this morning. While that's a lot of pressure, I work best with a tight, clear deadline, and I discovered last year that I have a knack for precis, so minute writing isn't quite the ordeal it could be. Assuming I can read my own handwriting, that is.
Also, I must get myself a quieter bluetooth keyboard for my iPad. This one is a bit rubbish, and incredibly loud!
3. Thanks to a meeting cancellation \o/ I have 2 totally unscheduled days ahead of me. I don't think I'd realised how much I need them until the notification came through. As at home, things here have got a little on top of me. Not in terms of workload - that's always too much - but in terms of my ability to track what needs doing first. Things have naturally bumped to the top of the pile, pushing long term projects down, and I need to dig them out again in order to make some progress. Things are about to move into Interesting Times over here, and I need to be ready for them.
All in all, it feels like time for some spring cleaning! There's a little blossom on the tree outside my window, the magnolia (my favourite tree) is starting to bud, and I'm emerging from my winter haze. February is always difficult, but it's not as hard as November for me, and I got through that relatively okay last year. And, of course, the sunshine today helps. Still, I'm feeling more realistic about things than I have done for a while, so I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts!
3a. Speaking of enjoying things, I bought myself this pen along with my new journal. It messed with my head a bit for the first day, but now I'm used to it, it keeps making me smile. It really does look like a pencil! But it's a pen!
On the migraine spectrum, mine are pretty mild in general. I get a blind spot, the cracked glass effect, and a mild headache, all normally passing within a few hours. Also, for the previous 2 days, I'm usually in a total brain fog, although I didn't have that this time. What was new was, when I got back to my desk, I discovered that I couldn't read my email. Not as in "I couldn't look at the screen" or "my vision is still screwed up" but my brain refused to make connections between words. I could see them. I could understand the individual words, but to all intents and purposes, I couldn't read. It passed after about half an hour, and although the overnight headache was massive, and I've got some remnants of double vision today, honestly, the reading thing was terrifying. As my colleague said, brains are weird.
2. That means that everything that should have happened after the meeting yesterday now needs to happen this morning. While that's a lot of pressure, I work best with a tight, clear deadline, and I discovered last year that I have a knack for precis, so minute writing isn't quite the ordeal it could be. Assuming I can read my own handwriting, that is.
Also, I must get myself a quieter bluetooth keyboard for my iPad. This one is a bit rubbish, and incredibly loud!
3. Thanks to a meeting cancellation \o/ I have 2 totally unscheduled days ahead of me. I don't think I'd realised how much I need them until the notification came through. As at home, things here have got a little on top of me. Not in terms of workload - that's always too much - but in terms of my ability to track what needs doing first. Things have naturally bumped to the top of the pile, pushing long term projects down, and I need to dig them out again in order to make some progress. Things are about to move into Interesting Times over here, and I need to be ready for them.
All in all, it feels like time for some spring cleaning! There's a little blossom on the tree outside my window, the magnolia (my favourite tree) is starting to bud, and I'm emerging from my winter haze. February is always difficult, but it's not as hard as November for me, and I got through that relatively okay last year. And, of course, the sunshine today helps. Still, I'm feeling more realistic about things than I have done for a while, so I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts!
3a. Speaking of enjoying things, I bought myself this pen along with my new journal. It messed with my head a bit for the first day, but now I'm used to it, it keeps making me smile. It really does look like a pencil! But it's a pen!
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Date: 2018-01-25 04:29 pm (UTC)That pen would also make the cognitive dissonance ring so loudly in my head. I've been eyeing some stamps on Etsy to help make my monthly/weekly tracking habits easier and less time consuming. Etsy is evil, lol.
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Date: 2018-01-25 05:39 pm (UTC)Oddly, the thing that confused me most about the pen was that it's a rollerball not a biro. Oddly, that was just as confusing!
Ooh, yes. Etsy is so wonderful and so, so dangerous :D
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Date: 2018-01-25 04:39 pm (UTC)And yay for the meeting cancellations, hope it gives you time to do some organizing :)
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Date: 2018-01-25 05:41 pm (UTC)It turned into a very good day for getting things sorted :) Most satisfying.
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Date: 2018-01-26 08:40 am (UTC)Thanks :)
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Date: 2018-01-28 07:24 am (UTC)Anyway, hope you continue to feel better.
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Date: 2018-01-29 08:43 am (UTC)Migraines suck, so I'm sorry to hear that :/ I'm much better, thank you!